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Night trains are interesting. And cold. After sprawling ourselves out across the seats, I used my purse as my pillow, and strapped my camera around my neck before drifting in and out of sleep for the six-hour train ride. No blanket, and only leggings and a thin sweater, heading to the North of Sweden. It was freezing. I woke up at 6am, with 30 minutes to go before arriving in Stockholm. As soon as we were pulling into the city, I could tell that it was going to be beautiful. We paid for lockers for our bags, and headed out of the train station for Gamla Stan (the Old Town) at 7am. The streets were empty as we searched for a café for a little food and a coffee. After lack of sleep, we were in need of a little energy. We probably walked around for about an hour, and around 8am we found a little café called Café Kladdkakan. After devouring our breakfast, we seriously could not keep our eyes open and decided to take advantage of the cushioned booth seats while we could. Mollie and I found ourselves drifting to sleep, and the owner came over and handed us pillows. We ended up “napping” until about 10am, before heading to the Vasa Museum. The Vasa was a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, and was rediscovered in the 1950’s, and was salvaged and lifted out of the water in 1961. Not the coolest museum I’ve been to, but hey we were exhausted, so it was a little hard to concentrate. After watching a 20-minute video in a “movie theater,” we found our eyes shutting, once again, and decided to stay in the theater for the next showing, but instead of watching, we moved down to the front row […]

We are in Sweden! It is so cool to finally be here, as I have been trying to make it over to this country for quite some time now. I was so close to making it over Christmas break, but plans changed and I ended up having to cancel the trip. Annika, a friend of mine for seven years now, was an exchange student at my high school. On our first night in Sweden she showed us her scrapbook full of pictures and journal entries from the entire year she spent in Kentucky. Some things never change, we confirmed, as she translated a sentence for us: “I didn’t have my camera today, but good thing Abbie did. I can just get the photos from her later.” We seriously were LOL’ing because we do the same thing now, swapping photos for both of our blogs (she is a lifestyle blogger in Sweden and is sponsored by Clarins, Aussie, etc.)! I have also shot two outfit posts for her since I’ve been here. Check out her blog at: http://annikafager.spotlife.se We have been quite spoiled with dinners and parties thus far. On the first night, Annika and her boyfriend, Marcus, cooked us Swedish tacos in their chic apartment in central Lund. Annika’s family, the Fagerström’s, threw a crayfish party—or a kräftskiva—for us at their beautiful home outside of Lund. A snapsvisa is a traditional Scandanavian drinking song that is sung before a shot of snaps. We sang lots of songs, took lots of shots, ate lots of crayfish, pie (quiche), homemade bread and cheese, and had a fabulous night. We are some lucky girls. Sofia, Annika’s sister, turned 10 on Thursday so we took Silly Bandz to her birthday party. The kids loved them! Annika’s entire family came over after all of the […]